#den

To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#ample #been #bridge #controversy #entire

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented. ↗

— Richard Wright

#evidence #inferences #leave #presented

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out. ↗

— Steven Wright

#had #i #out #prescription #ran

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#country #endure #endures #israel #judaism

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#every #every time #first #good #good student

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#administration #american #american consumer #ask #capital

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#bob #carl #confirm #former #go

President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.' ↗

— Ron Wyden

#american #anywhere #best #competitors #declared

President Obama was right to make enforcement of those trade rules a priority and his creation, today, of a Trade Enforcement Unit is a massive step in the right direction. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#direction #enforcement #his #make #massive